WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Senior, Footwear Product Engineer, reports to the Director of Footwear Product Engineering lead in Korea. As a member of the Korea Partner Manager Office (PMO) Development team, this role will collaborate with key footwear functional partners: Innovation, Design, Product Management, Product Development, Material Development, Product Testing, Partner Product Creation Center (PCC) Teams, Global Sourcing and Planning, and Operations Teams. This incumbent will serve as the key point of contact between our PCC/PMO partners and World Headquarters (WHQ) product team and will ensure that communication during the product development process is complete, clear, and accurate.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Senior, Footwear Product Engineer for Running, positioned in Korea to be an integral part of our Footwear Product Development Team and help drive product excellence for Running consumers. As a Senior, Footwear Product Engineer, this person will provide project and process direction, within the project team, to create highly technical performance product. The ideal candidate needs to have demonstrated project management, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in a product development environment. In addition, we are looking for someone who is a self-starter, quick learner, clear communicator, great teammate, and exhibits strong leadership skills. As a member of the development team, this person will effectively build relationships, lead, and interact with teams across Nike Footwear Product Creation.

• Minimum of 5+ years of directly applicable Footwear Development or Engineering work experience across multiple footwear sports/styles.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent combination of education, experience or training.
• Have a solid understanding of the tools supporting and tactically driving the footwear product creation process.
• Strong oral and written communication skills (in both English and Korean).
• Experience and solid knowledge for footwear lasts, upper patterns, materials, chemistry, bottom tooling, injection and plates, costing, test methodologies, and manufacturing.
• Solid understanding of the creation process, including production planning, forecasting, and scheduling to deliver product quality in a timely, efficient, and effective way.
• Demonstrated critical experiences in Adopting and Driving Innovation through the INLINE Product Creation Process.
• Demonstrated experience in Driving Product or Engineering Initiatives across the Footwear Dimensions and/or functions.
• Demonstrate good communication and influencing skills, with the ability to champion sophisticated projects both cross-functionally and vertically with the organization.
• Ability to travel locally and internationally up to 15% of the time.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As a Senior Footwear Product Engineer, you will work on highly technical performance product across Men’s, Women’s and Kids. You will drive product and process excellence, within a collaborative team environment, for your assigned projects as well as converting a project brief and 2D design tech pack into a physical footwear sample that meets the needs of the respective athlete, consumer, and business. Also, as a Senior Footwear Product Engineer, you are responsible for providing technical training to Product Creation and other functional teams.

We’re looking for you to apply your knowledge and experience to improve product excellence,

• By identifying and addressing key issues and challenges in construction/manufacturing.
• Engaging in all phases of the product process to ensure projects are led according to critical dates and completed on time.
• Meeting design intent, performance goals, costing/profitability, sustainability targets, and product integrity requirements.
• Provide the team of Footwear Engineering technical training and consultation.
• Lead the Engineering Standard and Best Practices documents to proliferate to the global.